Sentences with phrase «aid bill passed»

Gov. David Paterson, who threatened to call the Legislature — especially the Assembly — back to Albany this fall in hopes of getting a deal on a property tax cap, said this morning both houses must return earlier than expected if lawmakers want the state to benefit from the $ 26 billion aid bill passed this week in Washington, D.C.

Not exact matches

In December, the House of Representatives passed an $ 81 billion emergency aid bill to help hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas, and wildfire victims in California.

Ryan said nothing will stop a Harvey aid bill from getting through Congress and he didn't foresee any problems with it passing, despite opposition to federal aid from some Republicans following Superstorm Sandy.

When the House of Representatives passed its version of the farm bill in July, members added funding for rural development, conservation, food stamps and international food aid.

The federal bill that will provide New York with some $ 2.6 billion in Medicaid and education aid just passed the US Senate 61 - 39 (no surprise, as that was the same as yesterday's cloture vote in which two moderate Maine Republicans joined with the Democrats to end the GOP filibuster).

«We promise to pass our priority economic reform bills to help aid our economic recovery.

Remember: He executed the first veto — of $ 419 million worth of education aid, the bulk of the $ 519 million worth of funding restored by the Legislature that he nixed — on the same day the Assembly and Senate passed the first bills of their two - way deal.

Former Governor George Pataki's School Tax Relief (STAR) program, passed in 1997 and fully phased in by 2002, actually does reduce most homeowners» tax bills, through the mechanism of sending added aid to school districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemption.

Budget Division spokesman Erik Kriss said failure to pass a revenue bill worsens a cash crunch expected Sept. 1 when the state must pony up a $ 2 billion school - aid payment, with an additional $ 800,000 due not long after that.

During an interview on AM 710's «The John Gambling Show», Governor Paterson asked the state legislature to give him the power to implement the same FMAP contingency plan lawmakers agreed to back in the summer when they weren't sure if the state aid bill would pass.

While we are pleased with this progress, today was just a down payment and it is now time to go even further and pass the final and more complete, clean disaster aid bill.

Assembly Democrats passed a one - house version of the Dream Act, a bill to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants, and urged the Senate to follow suit.

The Senate passed its gap elimination adjustment bill two days before Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to unveil his 2016 - 17 state budget, which will include school aid.

The Democratic - led Assembly has already passed a package bills that would extend the deadline for setting the evaluation criteria as well as unlinking the aid from the evaluation adoption.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement Wednesday said he would back a bill design to aid the Vernon Downs racino in the Mohawk Valley and urged lawmakers from the area to pass a bill.

Passing this bill, aids Democrats, not the democratic process.»

De Blasio's inaction on what to do with a stash of $ 326 million in federal 9/11 funds could hurt the effort to pass a bill to give more aid to sick and dying 9/11 workers, Rep. Peter King warned.

Before helping the bill pass 80 to 63, Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca, gave an impassioned speech in the chambers about her brother, a gay man who died of AIDS in 1994 at age 37.

Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed a bill which makes it mandatory for all intending couples to undergo test for HIV / AIDs, twice, in the last...

Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed a bill which makes it mandatory for all intending couples to undergo test for HIV / AIDs, twice, in the last three months, before marriage is contracted.

After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

Said Van Capelle: «I just want to remind every single person who says this can not happen in May or June that if this community stopped fighting every time somebody told us something wasn't possible that we would never have had a GMHC, a Callen - Lorde, a Center, fought AIDS, or have any of the rights 60 bills that have passed Albany so far.

A House amendment to the $ 325 billion highway bill that passed in November would have effectively cut off billions in public transportation aid set aside for seven states (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland) and the District of Columbia.

This week Councilman Peter Vallone plans to introduce legislation calling on the federal government to pass Congress Member Grace Meng's bill and allow houses of worship damaged by Superstorm Sandy to receive aid from FEMA.

Mayor de Blasio's inaction on what to do with a stash of $ 326 million in federal 9/11 funds could hurt the effort to pass a bill to give more aid to sick and dying 9/11 workers, Rep. Peter King warns.

Passing this bill would mean that immigrant youth wouldn't have to take 10 years to finish college, like it took me, because they would be able to get financial aid and not have to work several jobs.

A bill to legalize aid in dying passed an Assembly committee last year.

The bill raises K - 12 state aid by $ 120 million over the $ 4.5 billion fiscal 1998 education budget passed earlier this year.

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York last week vetoed about $ 500 million in school aid from the budget bill passed by the legislature.

Congressional Quarterly reported yesterday that House Democratic leaders will accept the Senate's plan to pass a stripped - down supplemental spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seek another way to funnel $ 10 billion in edu - aid to the states.

Congress recently passed a bill that ended the requirement that colleges deliver at least half their courses on campus (as opposed to online) in order for their students to qualify for federal student aid.

But even after gaining 100 percent acceptance, the victory was short lived after discovering that a bill in the state senate had recently been passed denying undocumented students access to financial aid.

But the legislature's Democratic majority and most of Mr. Weld's fellow Republicans contended that the need for more state aid was too urgent to be delayed until a reform bill could be passed.

The bill's chance at passing is undoubtedly aided by the announcement last week that the state's largest teachers union, the California Teachers Association, was joining...

The bill would require a referendum to pass before voucher schools can take state aid out of a public school district.

The scaled - back version of the bill that passed Thursday would allow school districts to retain as much funding in state aid and property tax levy authority per pupil as the amount of each student's private school voucher.

GSRP funding is allocated yearly in the school aid bill which usually passes by July 1st.

Under the budget bill passed by the House last week, state funding for higher education will increase modestly over the next two years, with growth both in financial aid resources and institutional funding.

The increased focus on education began when Congress passed laws providing aid to schools in communities most affected by World War II and the GI Bill encouraged Americans to seek a postsecondary education.

He also cites two areas that were arguably not under his purview — the failure to pass a bill allowing federal financial aid eligibility for undocumented immigrant college students and any kind of substantive change to gun laws — as among the areas he would've liked to see a different outcome.

The legislature also passed Rep. Drew Hansen's bill to protect and expand financial aid opportunities for DACA students.

Hours after Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill into law, immigrant borrowers began filling out the updated state financial aid application online, NJ.com reported.Although advocates have been trying to get this bill passed for some time, several key pointers regarding the law were just recently revealed.

The artists in the show included Bill Viola, Tony Oursler, and Teiji Furuhashi (who passed away from AIDS - related illness one month after the exhibition's close).

This section - by - section summary of SB 6203 (first substitute) is designed to be an aid to those who want to better understand the carbon reduction bill passed out of the Senate Energy, Environment & Technology committee, without investing the time needed to read the full 62 - page bill.

After years of what critics say was under - funding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

In February, the House of Representatives passed a bill that carves out an exemption in the law, making websites liable if they aid and abet sex trafficking.